Jack Greenberg, J.D. Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History
Jack Greenberg, J.D. Oral History Interview: Date: July 18, 2011. Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009. Interview of: Jack Greenberg J.D., American, 1924 - 2016.
The object in the museum catalogue
The oral history consists of nine digital files: 2011.174.34.1a, 2011.174.34.1b, 2011.174.34.1c, 2011.174.34.1d, 2011.174.34.1e, 2011.174.34.1f, 2011.174.34.1g, 2011.174.34.1h, and 2011.174.34.1i.
Jack Greenberg, J.D. remembers attending Columbia University Law School, working for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, and arguing the Brown v. Board of Education case. He discusses working on many other civil rights cases, such as Coke v. City of Atlanta, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, and Griggs v. Duke Power.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: July 18, 2011
- Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of: Jack Greenberg J.D., American, 1924 - 2016
- Interviewed by: Joseph Mosnier Ph. D.
- Subject of: Columbia Law School, American, founded 1858
- Subject of: NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., American, founded 1940
- Subject of: Oliver L. Brown, American, 1918 - 1961
- Subject of: Board of Education of Topeka, American
- Subject of: H.D. Coke, American
- Type: video recordings
- Type: oral histories
- Type: digital media - born digital
- Medium: digital
- Dimensions: Duration (9 files): 47 min., 20 sec.
- Dimensions: File size (total): 78.97 GB
- Place collected: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: American South
- Topic: Associations and institutions
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Education
- Topic: Justice
- Topic: Law
- Object number: 2011.174.34.1a-i
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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